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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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although in the dictionaries the French taisson, the 

 Italian tasso, are rendered a brock, badger, or gray.] 



Quotation. — Whence the following line, and 

 what is its context ? 



" Est quadam prodire tenus, si non datur ultra." 



E. G. R. 

 [See Horace, Epist., lib. i. ep. i. line 32.] 



Dr. John Lightfoot. — If any correspondent 

 has in his possession a copy of the works of Dr. 

 John Lightfoot, in two folio volumes, with an ac- 

 count of his life prefixed, I should like to ask 

 whether he is spoken of in the memoir as having 

 been rector of Ashley in Staffordshire from 1630 

 till the time of his death in 1675. I have just 

 read an account of his life that quite ignores the 

 'fact of his having been rector of Ashley at all, al- 

 though I believe there is no doubt of his having 

 been so for the time I mention, and resident there, 

 from the testimony of the parish register, from 

 1635 to 1642. W. T. 



[The Life of Dr. John Lightfoot, prefixed to the folio 

 edition of his Works, 1684, states, "That from Stone Dr. 

 Lightfoot removed to Hornsey, near London, for tlie sake 

 of the library of Sion College ; from thence in the spring 

 of 1G30, he and his faniilj' came to Uttoxeter, where he 

 continued till the September following, when Sir Row- 

 land Cotton preferred him to the rectory of Ashlej', co. 

 Stafford. Here he continued in great esteem for the space 

 of twelve years, pursuing his Rabbinical studies, having 

 built himself a small house in the midst of a garden, 

 containing a study, a withdrawing room, and chamber 

 above ; and did choose to lodge here, though it were so 

 near to his family and parsonage-house. He continued 

 in this place till June, 1642, after which he became a kind 

 of exile in London."] 



Robert Dallam, Organ-builder. — 



" Hie jacet D""' Robertus Dallum, Insttumenti Pneu- 

 matici (quod vulgo Organum nuncupant) peritissimus 

 Artifex; filius Thomas Dallum de Dallum in comitat. 

 Laucaatrife, mortuus est die Mail ultimo 



("Domini 1665. 

 |iEtatissu3e63. 



Anno 



Qui postquam diversas Europ£e,plagas hac arte (qua prse- 

 cipue claruit) exornasset, solum hoc tandem, in quo re- 

 quieseit, cinere suo insignivit." 



This inscription is given in'Wood's Hist, and 

 Antiq. Univ. Oxoniensis, 1674, vol. ii. p. 155. Is 

 anything now known of the works of this organ- 

 builder ? W. C. Tbevelyan. 



[Robert Dallam, or Dallum, citizen and blacksmith of 

 London, was born in 1602, and died in 1665 ; he was 

 buried in the cloisters of New College, Oxford. He built 

 the organ in New College Chapel, and the small one in 

 the INIusic School, Oxford ; but his principal work appears 

 to have been the organ in York Minster, destroyed when 

 that noble building was partially burnt. The circum- 

 stances connected with the erection of the latter organ 

 are detailed in The Organ, its History and Construction, 

 by E. J. Hopkins and Dr. Rimbault, 1855, p. 52. ; and in 

 Crosse's Account of the York Musical Festival, 4to. 1825, 

 pp. 134-5., and Appendix,] 



Praeds Lines on the Speaker. — Can any of 

 your readers furnish a copy of lines written by the 

 late Winthrop Mack worth Praed on seeing the 

 Speaker of the first Reformed Parliament asleep 

 in his place ? I have lost the copy I had, which 

 was cut from a newspaper. There are, I think, 

 about twenty or twenty-five lines, but I can re- 

 collect three only ; the first — 



" Sleep, Mr. Speaker, sleep when you maj'," 

 and, — ■ 



" Hume will soon be taking the sense 

 Of the House on a question of fifteen- pence." 



J. W. Phillips. 



Haverfordwest 



[These clever lines are preserved in a volume entitled 

 Lillian and other Poems, by Winthrop Mackworth Praed, 

 New York, 1852, p. 246.: 



" VERSES ox SEEING THE SPEAKER ASLEEP IN HIS CHAIR 

 IN ONE OF THE DEBATES OF THE FIRST REFORMED 

 PARLIABIENT. 



" Sleep, Mr. Speaker, 'tis surely fair. 

 If you may n't in your bed, that you should in j'our 



chair. 

 Louder and longer now they grow, 

 Tory and Radical, Ay and No ; 

 Talking by night and talking by day, 

 Sleep, Mr. Speaker, sleep while you may ! 



"Sleep, Mr. Speaker; slumber lies 

 Light and brief on a Speaker's eyes. 

 Fielden or Finn in a minute or two 

 Some disorderly thing will do ; 

 Riot will chase repose away — 

 Sleep, Mr, Speaker, sleep while you may ! 



" Sleep, Mr. Speaker. Sweet to men 

 Is the sleep that cometh but now and then. 

 Sweet to the weary, sweet to the ill, 

 Sweet to the children that work in the mill. 

 You have more need of repose than they — 

 Sleep, Mr. Speaker, sleep while you may! 



" Sleep, Mr. Speaker, Harvey will soon 

 Move to abolish the sun and the moon ; 

 Hume will no doubt be taking the sense 

 Of the House on a question of sixteen- pence. 

 Statesmen will howl, and patriots bray — 

 Sleep, Mr. Speaker, sleep while you may ! 



" Sleep, Mr. Speaker, and dream of the time, 

 When loj'alty was not quite a crime. 

 When Grant was a pupil in Canning's school, 

 And Palmerston fancied Wood a fool. 

 Lord, how principles pass away — 

 Sleep, Mr. Speaker, sleep while you may ! "] 



WRITING WITH THE FOOT, 



(2°" S. iii. 226.) 



The entry communicated by J. G. N. from a 

 volume in St. Paul's Cathedral may be paralleled 

 by a similar memorandum written on the fly-leaf 

 of MS. Addit. 14,850. in the British Museum, con- 

 taining the Rentale and Custumarium of the mo- 



